An MP report says 200,000 pension savers who lost money in the Equitable Life scandal may miss out again on claiming the compensation due to them.

Scott Jones, 15, breaks the shot put world record to win gold in his first major event, the IPC World Championships.

US company Halliburton agrees to plead guilty to destroying evidence relating to the oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico in 2010.

Shares in Facebook leap by almost a third after it beat earnings expectations with stronger-than-expected mobile ad sales in the second quarter.

Work to publish a new Scottish Gaelic dictionary is to be speeded up with the awarding of £2m, says the Scottish Funding Council

Twenty-six signal boxes across the UK are granted Grade II listed status by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Pope Francis visits Copacabana beach, in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, to hold the greeting ceremony for World Youth Day.

Workers at the Ford Transit factory in Southampton finish their final shifts as it prepares to close, ending 100 years of Ford production in the UK.